Debug Robot Framework tests from Pycharm

Question

I'm writing tests on robot Framework and use some python functions with it. So I have the start.sh shell script that runs my testcases. But in my tests I use python functions, that was written by myself and I want to debug it and sometimes see the variables. How can I do it in PyCharm? I tried to add shell script in debug configuration, but it didn't help. Also I tried to run start shell script from python script, but I also couldn't get to breakpoints.

Answer 1

Why are you using this start.sh? If you're using PyCharm, you can run your test cases via it and set breakpoints in whatever functions you want. Just setup a configuration for it

I just call run.py for the script: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\robot\run.py

Script params: --monitorcolors ansi --loglevel DEBUG --outputdir TestResults --exclude "Exclude_me" TestSuite

Then ensure you have your python interpreter set correctly and your working directory.

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